Part 1 explores the roles of the "old nurse" and other female storytellers in the fictional worlds of Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, Lady Mary Wroth, and Anna Weamys, as well as in John Aubrey's (also fictional) historiographical project.

The classic Renaissance example of the latter is Faerie Queene author Edmund Spenser, who found the colonized Irish people of such little consequence that he called for their elimination so that the island itself could be resettled by a British population.

Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser are both misspelt, together with a number of scholars' names in the footnotes and bibliography; and the Bishops' Bible was not a seventeenth-century production, as implied by two mistranscribed dates on p.

Londoner Edmund Spenser wrote "The Faerie Queen" while living in Ireland in the late 1500s; contemporary American writer Thomas Flanagan is known for historical novels of Ireland, including "The Tenants of Time" and "The End of the Hunt.

Taking on the job meant joining a canon of literary greats including William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Sir John Betjeman The role began when Richard the Lionheart appointed Gulielmus Pereqrinus, and continued with Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser and Ben Jonson.

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